Comparative DQN-improved algorithms for stochastic games-based automated edge intelligence-enabled IoT malware spread-suppression strategies

Shen, Yizhou, Shepherd, Carlton, Ahmed, Chuadhry Mujeeb, Yu, Shui and Li, Tingting ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9448-1655 2024. Comparative DQN-improved algorithms for stochastic games-based automated edge intelligence-enabled IoT malware spread-suppression strategies. IEEE Internet of Things Journal 11 (12) , pp. 22550-22561. 10.1109/JIOT.2024.3381281

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Abstract

Massive volumes of malware spread incidents continue to occur frequently across the Internet of Things (IoT). Owing to its self-learning and adaptive capability, artificial intelligence (AI) can provide assistance for automatically converging to an optimal strategy. By merging AI into edge computing, we consider an edge intelligence-enabled IoT (EIIoT) environment and provide a stochastic learning strategy for suppressing the spread of IoT malware. In particular, we introduce stochastic game theory to symbolise the whole process of the confrontation between IoT malware and edge nodes. Built upon the theoretical framework to demonstrate the specific spread-suppression architecture, we apply the improved Deep Q-Network algorithms including DDQMS, D2QMS and D3QMS that can deduce the optimal EIIoT malware spread-suppression strategy with better performance. Through experiments, we investigate the influence of related parameters on learning strategy selection, recommending the optimal parameters setting of automated EIIoT malware spread-suppression. We also compare the performance of the proposed three DQN-improved algorithms.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Publisher:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISSN:	2327-4662
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	8 May 2024
Date of Acceptance:	25 March 2024
Last Modified:	04 Jul 2024 18:33
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/168780

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